The Diary Review

‘I availed myself of a regular rainy day to stay at home and prepare books for binding and file my letters. Such a day once in a while is a ...

‘Marshal Stalin stressed in his remarks his feeling that the three Great Powers which had borne the burden of the war should be the ones to ...

‘ The Daily Express has an incredible feature article: “Why Barbara is King of the Castle.” As I thought, the press is crediting me with ha...

‘There it was - a bound ledger of the kind used in simple bookkeeping; it was in just such ledgers as this that Wolfe had written his first ...

’That morning I bought my first lacquer box (on Petrovka). It had been several days now that, as often happens with me, I had been concentra...

Inside Francis Bacon - Thames & Hudson , The Guardian Pranab Mukherjee’s diary habit - Times of India Secret WWI diary of Kiwi - Pengui...

Happy 80th birthday Jan Kenneth Eliasson. A Swedish diplomat and politician, he served as ambassador to the US, and as Deputy Secretary-Gene...

Henry Louis Mencken, one of the most famous and controversial US journalists of the early 20th century, was born 140 years ago today. Largel...

One hundred and twenty years ago today, a young Tasmanian soldier, John Hutton Bisdee, serving in the Boer War, risked his life to carry an ...